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I was so struck by the analogy that I coined a term for our experience: the illusion of validity.
Kahneman compares the illusion of validity with the Müller-Lyer illusion in which two lines that are known to be equal in length are seen as unequal.
Kahneman describes dozens of such experimentally demonstrated breakdowns in rationality — "base-rate neglect," "availability cascade," "the illusion of validity" and so on.
The punchline is that the trust we place in star ratings reflects an illusion of validity; we trust them much more than we should.
Now the wars wind down under another illusion of validity, which is that the civilians harmed by the wars are relatively few.
There is an "illusion of validity" for any random data point, a seductive sense that is colored by what we hope will be true.
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